Sexual harassment and stalking in female university students: negative emotions and coping with these forms of gender-based violence

Stalking and sexual harassment, as expressions of gender violence in the field of higher education, are very pressing problems as they have been exhibited by the protest movements that have arisen in Higher Education Institutions. The objective of this work is to analyze the narratives of university...

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Autores: Karla Jazmín Rodríguez Hernández, ADRIANA RODRIGUEZ BARRAZA, Maria Carolina Agoff
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:México
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:uacj.mx:oai:oai:erevistas.uacj.mx:article-5456
Acceso en línea:http://erevistas.uacj.mx/ojs/index.php/noesis/article/view/5456
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Emociones
instituciones de educación superior
acoso sexual
hostigamiento sexual
violencia de género
CIENCIAS SOCIALES
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/5
Emotions, higher education institutions, sexual stalking, sexual harassment
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Sumario:Stalking and sexual harassment, as expressions of gender violence in the field of higher education, are very pressing problems as they have been exhibited by the protest movements that have arisen in Higher Education Institutions. The objective of this work is to analyze the narratives of university women who experienced stalking and/or sexual harassment in Higher Education Institutions in the municipalities of Tampico and Ciudad Madero in the state of Tamaulipas. The purpose was to learn about their experiences and their way of dealing with these forms of gender violence, using qualitative research and a phenomenological design. The technique used for data collection was the semi-structured interview. The selection of the informants was based on intentional sampling and the number of cases examined was guided by the saturation criterion, the total number of participants being thirteen. The analysis of the interviews shows that acts of stalking and sexual harassment provoke various emotions in women that can shed light on the problem of violence from the perspective of the victims, instead of considering only their own explanations, which are often rationalized or consistent with socially legitimized meanings. In sum, the study of emotions allows us to conclude that women within the university context suffer from a psychophysical discomfort that does not allow them to live a full university life.